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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Jun 05, 1907
Page
2
Thrift and taste meet in our winter overcoats. Made to order coats cover service style fit and economy. They keep their shape long after a ready made coat wears out. Buy ready made only if it saves money. the cheapest coat is the one you wear longest. Place orders early for best materials.
Plumbers and tinmen announce the hire of Mr Toward Graves to run their workshop and outdoor operations in all branches including engineering, electrical, plumbing and gas fitting. Graves has twenty years of experience, recently inspecting plumbing and sanitary works in Caversham, Dunedin, and formerly foreman at Mr Kirk's Christchurch plumbing business before moving to Ashburton.
The Ashburton Borough Council and the Ashburton Gas Company near terms for the gasworks sale. Critics urge a current independent expert valuation and full disclosure of outgoings, depreciation, and alternative proposals before ratepayers vote in June 1907.
Constable Edwin John Jones to mounted duty at Akaroa after eighteen months in Ashburton. Farm sale at Netherby Wakanui 536 acres to Mr John Cochrane Elgin. A fine 6-tooth wether sold for 34s at Ashburton yards to Mr A Wilkie. Borough Council laughter over salary letter ended with approval of the employee’s application. May rainfall totals at Alford listed. Waimate land sale: 27 acres Waikakahi river-bed grazing sold £130 to Mr Pemberton Morven. 170 acres at Waikaki Village Settlement passed in at £840. Tinwald Town Board meeting notes on dog fees refund, valuation update, advertising hoard permit, tussock clearing tenders, sanitary report, street work, stray stock prosecutions, water channel obstruction removal, minor works, and railway drain cleaning. Accounts £184 2s 10d paid. Maethvenegach to leave Newnesetables at 3.90 pitu after Saturday.
Frost recorded at Ashburton Domain. Probate records show Archibald Lusk's estate at £2936 for May. Otago Winter Show praises Mrs Mc Dowell of Wakanui with multiple butter prizes. Rangitata Plains kick off a large land breakup aimed at root crops, while dry weather hampers ploughing. Rail progress notes Wellington to Auckland now 426 miles, 336 open. March expenditure on line £2,139,328 with 1937 workers. Ashburton Rifle Corps holds drills as marksmen receive badges. Euchre tournament results among Friendly Societies. Trudy King lectures on infant milk humanisation at St Stephen's. North Otago Times notes southern stock shortages. North America missing tourist case advances. bag with £127 found. St John Ambulance Ashburton annual meeting reports good first aid pass rate, nursing class considered. Mount Somers reports persistent fine weather, wells drying, new workshops, coal trains, and a large house fire at Harris mine. Colonial employers and beard policy cited in job anecdotes. Plus notes on Beecham pill founder and Lord Wolseley military anniversary.
Representatives of Education Departments met in private and resolved that a central bureau was essential to encourage effective and continuous exchange of information between departments. They also agreed that mutual recognition of teachers certificates is impossible due to differing local conditions and urged financial and administrative arrangements to allow teachers and inspectors to gain experience across the Empire.
Calcutta June 4 Lord Minto in a Council resolution empowers Indian local governments to prosecute all cases involving the publication of seditious and subversive writings.
New York news notes that the amended United States Customs regulations agreed upon with Germany will become effective on July 1. Changes in the current irritating system of Customs administration will affect imports from Germany and all other countries alike.
Melbourne reports Colonial Ricardo the State Military Commandant died from injuries after he fell from his horse while following the hounds. His skull was fractured and his condition was critical.
At the Sydney Methodist Conference on June 4 Dr Brown moved to adopt the Fiji Commission report on Fiji as a district conference. The plan calls for all European ministers on trial plus one native minister per circuit. Debate over the Financial Committee ended with four superintendent missionaries two native ministers and two native lay members.
Four bars of gold valued at £1700 disappeared after the Mint building closed. Constable in charge kept the only key. guards changed three times before discovery. Suspect is key abstracted and pocketed. thief likely entered room twice to take and replace the key. Pascoe handed over the gold and signed exoneration documents.
An official report shows last year 3838 establishments in New South Wales, up from 3708. Males employed reached 59,889 and females 17,870, compared with 56,112 males and 16,064 females in 1905. Gains were general with notable increases in building and iron trades.
In Adelaide on June 4 the Marine Enquiry held Captain Thomas of the Arden Craig responsible for the collision with the Norma on April 21. His certificate is suspended for nine months and he must pay costs totaling £50.
Sydney Melbourne and Adelaide report June 5 grain quotes with wheat maize barley oats and potatoes listed across markets. Prices range from 3s 8d to 3s 1lid for wheat and include flour bread butter and bacon notes. UK and continent totals show 3 490 000 and 2 610 000 bushels respectively.
Fragmentary note describes a nighttime cough issue among children linked to woods and peppermint clue. Mentions a grande or great hint and a clue involving peppermint. No clear names, dates, or locations provided.
Ottawa Canada renews the Canadian Depe mail contract for five years at twenty thousand pounds per year. Dacat Lewisohn, copper dealer's son, marries Idna May at a Windsor registry office. Advices from Dgands report a worn cad buffalo killed Dr Dengham of the Sleeping Sickness Commission. Edward John Morrie, a Clapham picture dealer, remanded on charges of receiving Wertheimer's pictures and instigating burglary. Bodoni arrested for the burglary.
In the House of Commons Sir H C Bannerman announced no autumn session in 1805 and outlined postponed and new bills for 1908 including Education and Licensing reform. Irish and nonconformist members express disappointment while other measures face uncertainty and potential further drops in coming weeks.
Fragmentary text reports a balloon incident near Aldershot with occupants possibly jumping or being washed out. Hopes for finding them alive fade as search efforts pause.
London reports increased police presence across twelve Irish districts including seven counties due to unrest. The Nationalist majority on the Carrick-on-Shannon bench acquitted ring leaders in unlawful assembly and intimidation tied to the anti-grading movement with magistrates boycotted. Lord Chancellor Loreburn censures Nationalist magistrates at Roscommon for abandoning districts to rule on unrelated cases in three towns.
Port Darwin reports Commander Silk of the war ship Priamua, part of the governor general’s party, is missing after separating from a shooting party near Palmerston on Sunday morning. Search parties are out.
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